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2026 [Fwd: THE TEARS OF THE MIGHTY] -- rank: 1000

In message <s8cf7c30.026 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes >CB: Well, I take an "absolutist" position on freedom from racism, and when >freedom of speech conflicts with it, freedom from racism must prevail. This, incidentally, is ITN's case for censoring LM magazine. They insist that the higher principle of fighting Serb chauvinism renders freedom of speech void. Of course LM magazine does not accept that criticising I ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Mar 15 10:59:01 PST 2000

2027 Fwd: 'Gas-out' apr 7-9 -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.6.32.20000314095710.00eee150 at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> writes > >Jim, that is waaaay too deep for me, so let me make sure that I understand: > >In my original posting in this thread i said that capitalism promotes >wasteful consumption to keep assorted capitalists in business, and cited >automobile transportation as a textbook example of such wastefulness (the >textbook being Baran & Sweezy's classic). Well, ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Mar 15 06:14:10 PST 2000

2028 poverty, not AIDS, killing Africans -- rank: 1000

In message <20000314202237.2879.qmail at rubella.ecst.csuchico.edu>, michael at ecst.csuchico.edu writes >The author is a former friend, now a very meanspirited conservative >activist. Meanspirited, maybe, but is it a conservative argument to say that African health problems arise out of poverty? Is it a radical argument to say that, no, AIDS is responsible? I don't think so. -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Mar 15 00:30:16 PST 2000

2029 Fwd: LM NEWS: Statement from Mick Hume/03-14-00 -- rank: 1000

In message <p0431010eb4f428f9b6e2@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >[James - what was the verdict? any comments? - Doug] The verdict was that LM libelled ITN. In the evidence, ITN journalists accepted that the barbed wire through which the film was taken in fact surrounded them, not the refugees, the main point of the article. However, Justice Morland in his summing up insisted that whether that was the case or not was not what was being judged, but wh ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Mar 14 12:55:07 PST 2000

2030 Fwd: 'Gas-out' apr 7-9 -- rank: 1000

In message <s8ccd05a.077 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes > >And of course, the theory of monopoly capitalism and imperialism that Varga is >referring to is Lenin's theory. How odd not to mention the origin and most >famous exponent of the theory being criticized. It would be a terrible thing to saddle Lenin with responsibility for Varga. Lenin shows how imperialism develops on the basis of the laws of development that Ma ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Mar 13 12:39:25 PST 2000

2031 tree hugging nazis -- rank: 1000

In message <20000311140406.A4267 at panix.com>, Gordon Fitch <gcf at panix.com> writes > I once lived in an area of Canada where >large tracts of wilderness were completely trashed almost >overnight by Crown Zellerbach, at the time (and maybe still) >a big lumber and paper concern. A desire not to see broad >stretches of their world turned into a desert caused >traditionalists, conservatives, and reactionaries as well as >leftists to oppose such enterprises. Mo ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 13 01:33:37 PST 2000

2032 Fwd: 'Gas-out' apr 7-9 -- rank: 1000

Rakesh rightly chides me for not being specific about the theorists of monopoly capitalism. The theory that big business exploits smaller business has been a constant theme of radical economics. So Baran and Sweezy struggle to limit the responsibility of the small capitalist with rhetorical terms: 'Smaller business is on the receiving end ... From the point of view of a theory of monopoly capitalism, smaller business should be treated as a part of the environment within which big business opera ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Mar 12 15:52:26 PST 2000

2033 Trade Union numbers -- rank: 1000

Does anyone here know where I can find statistics on trade union membership totals, over say a thirty year period, across the world, or in the leading capitalist countries, or in Europe, or America? It has to be over time to show a trend, ideally over the period from 1970-2000, or thereabouts. Websites or published sources would be ideal. -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Mar 12 11:24:20 PST 2000

2034 Burson Marsteller report on anti-corporate activists -- rank: 1000

Perhaps Burson Marsteller's interest in green activists dates back to the murder of the publicity company's executive Thomas Mosser by Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. Kaczynski wrote to the NYT (falsely) accusing 'Burston Marsteller' (sic) of whitewashing Exxon over the Exxon Valdez. On searching the Unabomber's tarpaper shack, prosecutors found a copy of Earth First! (21 June 1993) that accuses 'Burston Marsteller' (sic) of just that. Kaczynski sent a package bomb to Mosser's house, which killed him o ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Mar 12 11:17:26 PST 2000

2035 tree hugging nazis, and a quick note on Peter Singer -- rank: 1000

In message <200003082341.SAA02243 at fn3.freenet.tlh.fl.us>, Michael Hoover <hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us> writes >Related question: I recall Thatcher making 'green' speech, doesn't >British Conservative Party consider itself to be 'guardian & trustee' >of natural environment? The speech was some time around 1988-9, and was written by Sir Crispin Tickell, former UK Ambassador to the UN. Thatcher was trying out the argument that envisages some other threat than the Soviet U ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 12 04:54:18 PST 2000

2036 Fwd: 'Gas-out' apr 7-9 -- rank: 1000

The approach of the monopoly capital theorists was always suspect. It involved isolating reactionary capital (auto industry, finance etc) from "progressive" capital, small employers, farmers - all that populist stuff. The auto industry is no more or less evil than any other part of capital. It is the social relation that is reactionary, not a specific element of the production process. In message <s8c7aea0.026 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detro ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Mar 12 05:10:21 PST 2000

2037 tree hugging nazis, and a quick note on Peter Singer -- rank: 1000

> >Michael Pollak wrote: >> That's a good point to keep in mind. The voelkish ideology that led to >> Nazism posited a mystical connection between the features of a people and >> the land that gave them birth -- i.e., Germans were deep because they came >> from forests, and Jews were shallow and rootless because they came from >> deserts. It's not organic farming that has a natural affinity with >> Nazism. Rather it's the idea that land determines race ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Mar 11 01:17:12 PST 2000

2038 1900 House -- rank: 1000

In message <20000630094130.A7141 at panix.com>, Gordon Fitch <gcf at panix.com> writes > The resources of Ireland and >the Dust Bowl were relative to a certain political >configuration of the human beings who lived in them at the >time. One can say that the resources would have been >adequate to a different political configuration, but that is >just begging the question I think you miss the point. In both Ireland's potato famine and the dustbowl collapse there was ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Jun 30 08:09:01 PDT 2000

2039 1900 House -- rank: 1000

In message <20000629092248.A18006 at panix.com>, Gordon Fitch <gcf at panix.com> writes >> >Such things as the exhaustion of important resources and >> >catastrophic breakdowns of the environment have been noticed >> >on a small scale before now; I can supply examples if necessary. > >jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk 06/28/00 10:39AM >>> >> Yes, please do. >I was thinking of various agricultural disasters like the >Dust Bowl and the ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Jun 30 02:49:04 PDT 2000

2040 British academic faces stern test at World Bank -- rank: 1000

The World Bank is quite a hotbed of radicalism these days. I see that the chief theoretician of the 'International Socialists' Nigel Harris is working for them, too. Perhaps this explains the Bank's increasing emphasis upon social conditions for debt restructuring. It will be interesting to see how these radical views become elements of the case for the World Bank. In message <3959F460.3FED118 at btinternet.com>, Bruce Robinson <bruce.rob at btinternet.com> writes >> >> F ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 28 07:43:25 PDT 2000